Roger Kellaway - Windows

Primary Artist
Roger Kellaway
Album Title
Windows
Release Date
May, 1993 
Time
60:55 
Review by Richard S. Ginell
After a long hiatus following the death of cellist Edgar Lustgarten, The Roger Kellaway Cello Quartet resurfaced in 1993 as a nearly-all-wood sextet with a whole new bag of cross-idiomatic music. Emil Richards (marimba) and Chuck Domanico (bass) return from the old group, and there are two busy percussionists (Joe Porcaro and Bob Zimmitti) who take on a long list of foreign and domestic instruments, including standard trap drums. Fred Seykora is the new cellist, and though he doesn't command as imposingly lyrical a tone as Lustgarten did, he more than serves Kellaway's purposes which, in any case, don't necessarily center around the cello. Read More